Few- at
least few who are fairly before the public, have more than very
shallow claims to a rivalry with the author of Thanatopsis.
THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, AND OTHER TALES
By Charles Dickens, With Numerous Illustrations by Cattermole
and Browne. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard.
MASTER HUMPHEREY'S CLOCK
By Charles Dickens. (Boz.) With Ninty-one Illustrations by
George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard.
WHAT WE here give [the above titles] is the duplicate title, on
two separate title-pages, of an octavo volume of three hundred and
sixty-two pages. Why this method of nomenclature should have been
adopted is more than we can understand- although it arises, perhaps,
from a certain confusion and hesitation observable in the whole
structure of the book itself. Publishers have an idea, however, (and
no doubt they are the best judges in such matters) that a complete
work obtains a readier sale than one "to be continued;" and we see
plainly that it is with the design of intimating the entireness of the
volume now before us, that "The Old Curiosity Shop and other Tales,"
has been made not only the primary and main title, but the name of the
whole publication as indicated by the back. This may be quite fair
in trade, but is morally wrong not the less.
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